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Support the A-PLUS Act, H.R. 719

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and urge him or her to support the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success (A-PLUS) Act, H.R. 719, introduced by Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.). This bill will put education back in the hands of local and state governments.

The A-PLUS Act aims to prioritize academic achievement and make schools and communities accountable for the success of all students, especially disadvantaged students.

By giving states and local communities the flexibility to determine what their children need to excel, all parties are winners. The A-PLUS Act gives states the ability to consolidate all funding for programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in order to improve educational opportunities and “reduce unnecessary fiscal and accounting requirements.” The bill also strengthens state and local control by providing the option to decline participation in cumbersome requirements attached to federal education programs.

This bill will provide the necessary impact for education within our communities. It restores local control of education and empowers parents, not big government bureaucrats.

For these reasons, FreedomWorks supports the A-PLUS Act, H.R. 719. As Rep. Walker acknowledges, “Innovation starts in our communities, not in Washington.” Please contact your representative to ask him or her to cosponsor the A-PLUS Act to give American children the opportunity to grow and learn in the best educational environment possible, one that specifically caters to the needs of their communities.

On behalf of FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your representative and encourage him or her to support the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person (FIRST STEP) Act, H.R. 5682, introduced by Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). The bill would require the implementation of evidence-based recidivism reduction programming in federal prisons and allow eligible offenders to earn time credits to serve part of their sentence in home confinement, halfway houses, or community supervision.

On behalf of FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to support the Penny Plan Balanced Budget, S.Con.Res. 36, introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). The budget would repeal the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, utilize the penny plan for bringing federal spending under control, expand health savings accounts, and implement true budget process reform. Every one of these proposals is desperately needed when our country is staring down a debt-to-GDP ratio in 2028, in which debt held by the public nearly eclipses the size of the economy. This type of spending growth is unsustainable and the Penny Plan Balanced Budget proposes a way to rightsize the fiscal outlook of our country.

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and tell him or her to support the President Trump’s Farm Bill Reforms Act, H.R. 5629, introduced by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). The bill would reform and modernize the subsidies the federal government grants as a part of its omnibus Farm Bill.

On behalf of FreedomWorks activists nationwide, I urge you to contact your representative and encourage him or her to support the amendment in the nature of a substitute for the Prison Reform and Redemption Act, H.R. 3356, introduced by Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.). The bill would require the implementation of evidence-based recidivism reduction programming in federal prisons and allow eligible offenders to earn time credits to serve part of their sentence in home confinement, halfway houses, or community supervision.

On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and strongly encourage him or her to cosponsor the One Percent Spending Reduction Act, H.R. 5572, introduced by Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.). The bill, also known as the “penny plan,” would balance the federal budget in five years by simply cutting one penny from every dollar the federal government spends.

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to support the Earmark Elimination Act, H.R. 5369, introduced by Reps. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), and Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.). The bill would make permanent the temporary moratorium on congressional earmarks put into effect in 2010 by creating a point of order against any provision within a bill that matches the definition of an earmark, and when raised would be stricken absent a two-thirds majority to override.

In 2015, Congressman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) started a movement to remove then-Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-Ohio), from his position. Of this effort, Meadows said, "It's really more about trying to have a conversation on making this place work, where everybody's voice matters, where there's not a punitive culture. Hopefully, we'll have some discussion about that in the days and weeks to come."

On behalf of our activist community in Georgia, I urge you to contact your state representative and ask him or her to support the Registered Fantasy Contest Operators Act, HB 118. The bill would ensure that daily fantasy sports websites can operate legally in the Peach State and implement consumer protections for players.

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to support the Education Savings Accounts for Military Families Act, H.R. 5199, introduced by Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.). The bill would give military families the option of opening an education savings account (ESA) for military-dependent students, advancing school choice and ensuring that poor educational options are not a deterrent for service members either prior to joining or upon being given a new posting.

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and ask him or her to support the Global Trade Accountability Act, H.R. 5281, introduced by Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio). In January 2017, FreedomWorks released a letter of support for Senate version of the Global Trade Accountability Act, S. 177, introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). The bill would require congressional approval for any unilateral trade measures, including tariffs, carried out by the executive branch.